İsfahan
See also: Isfahan
Azerbaijani
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish اصفهان (İsfahān), from Classical Persian اصفهان (Isfahān), variant of سپاهان (sipāhān), from Middle Persian [script needed] (Spāhān), ultimately from Old Persian *spādānah (“army”, adj.) or *spādānām (“of the armies”), from 𐎿𐎱𐎠𐎭 (s-p-a-d /spādaʰ/, “army”, n.) from Proto-Iranian *cwáHdaH (“army”), q.v.
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